CH. 8 Quiz- Reform Movements

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second great awakening

religious revival movement in response to major social and intellectual changes

revival

emotional meetings to awaken people’s religious faith through preaching

burned-over district

intense revivals that took place in the western part of new york

charles finney

conducted some of the most successful revivals (“fanned the flames”)

ralph waldo emerson

a reformer who practiced transcendentalism

transcendentalism

philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life

henry David thoreau

locked himself in a cabin and wrote a book on how people should listen to their inner voices

civil disobedience

peacefully refusing to obey laws

utopias

perfect places where people would live

william lloyd garrison

white abolitionist who founded the anti-slavery society

frederick douglass

african abolitionist who escaped slavery and became a speaker and writer to use his experiences and fight for civil rights

nat turner

took a group of followers to attack four plantations and killed around sixty white people

cult of domesticity

women restricted from activities and forced to stay at home

unmarried women

forced to work in factories and got paid half the salary of men

prudence crandall

african woman who opened a school for only black students

declaration of sentiments

added that men and women are created equal

sojourner truth

spoke in a speech for abolition at a women’s rights convention which urged men to grant women their rights

cottage industry system

manufacturers provided the materials for goods to be produced at home

artisans

produced items that a family could not do at home

mill girls

unmarried women who worked under harsh conditions in mills

lowell Mill strike

demanded higher wages and shorter shifts